Natalie Baxter's work has been exhibited internationally in galleries, museums, universities, and art fairs, with recent shows at the Mattatuck Museum, Denny Dimin Gallery in New York and Hong Kong, the New York Historical Society, and Supermarket Art Fair in Stockholm. She has been an artist in residency at the Wassaic Project and Stove Works, a fellowship recipient at the Vermont Studio Center, and a grant recipient from Konstepidemin in Gothenburg, Sweden, the New York State Council for the Arts, and the Queens Art Fund. Press for Baxter's work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, Hyperallergic, The Guardian, and Bomb, and she received an MFA from the University of Kentucky.

Patrick Beurard-Valdoye is the author of 25 books of poetry and the visual arts, including on the American painter John Blee. He has recently published Lamenta des murs (Flammarion), which concludes his “Cycle of Exiles,” on which he has worked for 40 years, composed of eight books and some 3,000 pages. He is also responsible for bringing Hilda Morley's work to light in France. He was professor of poetic arts at the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts until 2023. He lives in Paris.

It took Marcus Civin a long time to admit to himself that he's a writer. Since the admission, his poetry and short stories have appeared in Clementine, Full Bleed, No, Dear, and The Paper. His writing about art and interviews with artists have appeared in Artforum, Art in America, BOMB, Boston Art Review, The Brooklyn Rail, Camera Austria, DAMN, MAAKE, Plus, Prospect Art, and elsewhere.

Sandra Doller is the author of several books of poetry and poetry-adjacent things. Her newest book, Not Now Now, is forthcoming from Rescue Press. Doller is the founder of 1913 a journal of forms and 1913 Press, where she remains l'éditrice-in-chief, publishing poetry, poetics, prose and else by emerging and established writers. The recipient of various honors including the Paul Engle-James Michener Fellowship and the Anomalous Press Translation Prize, she lives in the USA—for now.

Sylvia Dziewałtowska is a writer from Southern California living and working in New York. Her poetry collection Sunbather was published by Finishing Line Press in 2024, and her poetry and prose have appeared in or are forthcoming from publications including Harp & Altar, BOMB, Meridian, Bookforum, No, Dear, and Los Angeles Review of Books. She is a graduate of the Columbia University Writing Program in poetry.

James Gallagher uses collage to investigate human form and personal identity. His work has hung in galleries around the world, and he has curated international collage exhibitions in New York, Berlin, and Cork County, Ireland. His art has appeared in publications such as Elephant, Juxtapoz, Kolaj, The Paris Review, The New York Times, and Communication Arts, and has been featured in the HBO docuseries Sex Diaries and in Shoppe Object 2024. He is the co-editor of Gestalten's Cutting Edges: The Art of Contemporary Collage and was the publisher, editor, and creative director of the contemporary art magazine Secret Behavior. He earned a BFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York, where he lives with his wife and three children.

Julien Gracq (1910–2007) was born Louis Poirier. The pen name he eventually adopted is a combination of Julien Sorel, from Stendhal's The Red and the Black, and the Gracchi brothers of the Roman Republic. A history and geography teacher for much of his life, Gracq published his first book in 1938, The Castle of Argol, which André Breton praised as the first Surrealist novel. In 1951, Gracq won the Prix Goncourt for The Opposing Shore, but refused it out of disdain for the literary establishment. He is one of the few writers whose complete works were published during their lifetime by the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, France's most prestigious collection of classic authors.

Eileen G'Sell is a poet and critic with recent contributions to Poetry, Oversound, The Baffler, Hyperallergic, and The Hopkins Review. Her second volume of poetry, Francofilaments, is forthcoming from Broken Sleep Books in 2024. She is a 2023 winner of the Rabkin Foundation Prize in arts journalism and teaches at Washington University in St. Louis.

Elise Harris has contributed to American Theatre, The Theatre History Podcast, The New York Times, and Lingua Franca. Her previous writing for Harp & Altar includes a profile of poet Noelle Kocot in Issue 1 and a two-part series, "Notes from Pakistan,” in Issues 2 and 3.

Emily Hunt is the author of Stranger (2024) and Dark Green (2015), both published by The Song Cave. More info at emilyrhunt.org and on Instagram @emilyhunt_poet.

Kira Josefsson is a writer, editor, and translator working between Swedish and English. Her work has been longlisted for the International Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Bernard Shaw Prize. She lives in Queens, New York, and regularly writes on U.S. events and politics in the Swedish press. Her translation of Judith Kiros's O is forthcoming in 2024 from World Poetry Books.

Judith Kiros is a Swedish poet, translator, and critic. Her 2019 debut O was shortlisted for Swedish Radio's Poetry Prize, Katapultpriset, and Borås Tidning's Prize for Debut Authors. She is the 2023 winner of the Mare Kandre Prize and Svenska Dagbladet's Literature Prize. Kiros is a PhD candidate in English literature at Karlstad University and lives in Stockholm.

Matthew Klane has an MA in poetics from SUNY Buffalo and an MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. His books of poetry include Hist (with James Belflower, Calamari, 2022), Canyons (with James Belflower, Flimb Press, 2016), Che (Stockport Flats, 2013) and B (Stockport Flats, 2008). An e-chapbook from Of the Day is online at Delete Press and an e-book My is online at Fence Digital. He is co-founder of Flim Forum Press and currently co-curator of Salon Salvage, a poetry and performance series inside of Weathered Wood in downtown Troy, N.Y. See: www.matthewklane.com.

Ben Lasman's fiction has been published in Granta, Tin House, Wired, Zyzzyva, The Iowa Review, and elsewhere. A journalist and editor, he is currently online manager for Library of America.

Mike Newton is a visual artist, writer, and software developer based in Brooklyn. He is one of the editors of Harp & Altar.

Niina Pollari is a poet and Finnish translator. She is the author of the poetry collections Path of Totality (Soft Skull, 2022) and Dead Horse (Birds, LLC, 2015), and she lives in Western North Carolina with her family. Find her at niinapollari.com.

Matt Reeck is a Guggenheim Fellow in translation. His forthcoming translations include Leeladhar Jagoori's What of the Earth Was Saved (World Poetry Books), Abdelkébir Khatibi's The Wound of the Name (Northwestern University Press), and Édouard Glissant's One-World (University of Nebraska Press). His most recent poetry in French can be found on remue.net. He lives in Brooklyn with his family.

David Schuman teaches at Washington University in St. Louis, where he is also director of the MFA program. His prose chapbook, Best Men, was recently published by Tammy press.

Mathias Svalina is the author of eight books, most recently Thank You Terror (Big Lucks, 2024). His first short story collection, Comedy, will be published in 2024 by Trident Books. He also runs a dream delivery service.

Genya Turovskaya was born in Kyiv, Ukraine, and grew up in New York. She is the author of The Breathing Body of This Thought (Black Square Editions) and numerous chapbooks, as well as the translator of Aleksandr Skidan's Red Shifting (Ugly Duckling Presse). She is also a co-translator of Elena Fanailova's The Russian Version (Ugly Duckling Presse) and Arkadii Dragomoshchenko's Endarkenment: Selected Poems (Wesleyan). Her poems and translations of contemporary Russian poets have appeared in A Public Space, Chicago Review, Conjunctions, Fence, jubilat, Paris Review, and others. She has received a Fund for Poetry grant, a MacDowell Colony fellowship, a Montana Artist Refuge fellowship, a Witter Bynner translation residency at Santa Fe Art Institute, and a Whiting Award. She lives in New York, where she is a practicing psychotherapist.

Alice Yang is a teacher and translator based in Lyon, France. Her translations have appeared in Asymptote, Two Lines, The Yale Review, and AGNI, and her translation of Julien Gracq's Abounding Freedom is forthcoming in 2024 from World Poetry Books. She studied literature at Yale.